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Well Lew, Isn't that a different file? I thought we were talking about opening the SAME file on a different computer - not a different file (even if it contains the exact same data).

Alt+Q and select Inner Surface.

Lew, File Locking prevents another copy of Chief from opening the same plan or layout file at the same time. So...if File Locking is checked, someone else on PC B wouldn't be able to open the plan if you already had it open on PC A.

Joe, Doesn't "Use File Locking" do that?

You don't have a room definition because some of the walls are nominated as Atttic walls or No Room Definition walls. Both of these prevent a room definition. Fix that and then change the ceiling height of that room to zero or something like that. In the Build Roof dbx, uncheck Ignore Top (2nd) Floor. It still needs further work, but that's the basics.

I assume you have auto roofs turned on. Go to the second floor defaults and uncheck Ceiling Over This Room and make the Relative Ceiling Height (E) 4'. Turn off auto rebuild roofs. Open the second floor defaults again and make the Relative Ceiling Height 8' (or whatever) and check Ceiling Over This Room. You should get something like this:

Try Preferences...Appearance...Minimum Display Size...Dimensions...change it to zero.

Thanks Joe, That confirms my suspicion.

In post #10, you are selecting the wrong wall in elevation view. You are selecting the level 2 wall so that when you then select "Hang Floor Platform Above On Wall" it is not being applied to the correct floor platform. You need to select the wall on level 1 (the middle wall in elevation - not the topmost wall) and then check "Hang......." To complicate things a bit more, the horizontal wall in the bottom left hand corner on level 2, does not line up with the wall below.

I am trying to use a cad block that contains fill and I am losing the fill from the cad block. I have tried changing the CAD Blocks settings in the CAD panel of Preferences, but that doesn't help. Any ideas? The video explains the problem.

Alan, You should be able to use a Cad Block to do what you want.

That should be easily done with a macro. Joe or Michael?

Send the view to layout, add your text on the layout page and print from there.

Tim, Firstly, go to Defaults...General Plan Defaults...Snap Grid/Snap Units. Check Use Snap Grid/units and set the Snap Unit to a value that you are happy with - do you really need 1mm for floor plans? I have mine set to 10mm. You may like that, or maybe 5mm could be used. Anything less than 5mm, IMHO, is useless. I also uncheck Show Snap grid. Now go to the dimension default that you are using (1:50 dimensions - are you printing plans at 1:50?). Primary Format panel...Accuracy and change Decimal Places to zero. Do this in your template plan as well. That should clean everything up. Be aware though that the above will cause any new plans to be drawn accurately, with no decimal places displaying. The existing plan, although displaying the correct dimensions (should be mostly), will still be drawn incorrectly. I just had another look and is there any reason why you do not have linings on your walls. And are they really 36mm and 72mm thick?

Use a Spline Driveway and shape it to suit. It will cut and fill the terrain in it's width. I don't understand the second part to your question

In past versions (I am not sure when it changed) the direction you drew external walls was critical. You needed to draw them clockwise so that they were the right way around (not inside out) Chief couldn't tell what was the inside or outside of a wall. But a few versions back (maybe when we got the new Wall Type Definitions dbx) Chief got smart and can now tell from the wall definition, what is the external of the wall and what is the internal. So....if you are drawing an enclosed room anti-clockwise, the walls will draw inside out until you close the walls and form a room. Chief will then automatically reverse all the walls so that they are not inside out.

Open the window schedule...General panel...Objects to Include...uncheck Vents. Or, on the Options section in the Window dbx for the vent, uncheck Include in Schedule.

Rob, You need to have a look at Alt+Q (General Wall Defaults) where you can change the Resize About wall layer.

You can't drag top and bottoms of railings. But, you can drag top and bottoms of a normal walls. So...place your normal wall on top of your terrain retaining wall and in an elevation (or 3D) view you can move the tops and bottoms of the walls to suit. Then convert your higher wall to a railing. You can still control the height of the railing itself through the dbx.

That gap is caused by the thickness of the OSB and external cladding.

You are wanting to do something that can't be done. That would take about 30 seconds to redraw in Chief - a lot less time than it has taken you to get to this point!

How so Johnny?

A bit of tweaking and an auto roof build will get you out of a LOT of trouble. This one took 1 minute to do. A little more time could give you want you want and avoid all those roof problems you have at present.

And don't forget that depending on the material type assigned to the solid, the ML list will report different units of measurement. ie, you can use types like Brick (number), Area (square whatever), Volume (cubic whatever), Tile (number), etc

Joe, Solids ARE included in the material list. By default they come in as either Exterior Trim or Interior Trim as "Solid - concrete" description.